John Gordon, Lord Gordon (died 1517) was a Scottish nobleman. He was second, but eldest surviving, son of Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly, and his...
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George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat...
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Press. ISBN 978-1-107-08259-5. Attribution Cousin, John William (1910), "Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron", A Short Biographical Dictionary of English...
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Lord Gordon-Gordon (c. 1840 – August 1, 1874), also known as Lord Gordon Gordon, Lord Glencairn, and The Hon. Mr. Herbert Hamilton, was a British impostor...
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thus without heirs. John succeeded as 7th Earl of Aberdeen, as well as 7th Viscount of Formartine, 4th Viscount Gordon, and 7th Lord Haddo, Methlic, Tarves...
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Marquess of Huntly (redirect from Lord Gordon of Badenoch)
grandson, John Gordon, succeeded his grandmother in the earldom in 1535 (see Earl of Sutherland for further history about this branch of the family). Lord Huntly's...
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following children: Hon. John Gordon, Lord Gordon (died 1517), was the father of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly. Hon. Alexander Gordon of Strathavon, married...
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created on 4 January 1916 for John Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen. The Gordon family descends from John Gordon, who fought as a Royalist against...
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Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 – 1 November 1793) was a British nobleman and politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780...
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George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (1514 – 28 October 1562) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of John Gordon, Lord Gordon, and Margaret Stewart,...
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Lord William Gordon (1744–1823) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the second son of Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon (1720–1752) and his wife Lady Catherine...
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daughter of the Lord Treasurer, Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone. A strong Covenanter, Gordon was called "the good Earl John" by his associates...
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She married, first, John Gordon, Lord Gordon, the son of Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly. Lord Gordon's aunt Catherine Gordon's first husband was Perkin...
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George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen (3 October 1637 – 20 April 1720), was a Lord Chancellor of Scotland. Gordon, born on 3 October 1637, the second son...
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discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant Association, argued that the law would enable...
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Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Gordon (27 December 1845 – 18 January 1928), styled Lord Settrington until 1860 and Earl...
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Admiral Lord John Frederick Gordon Hallyburton, GCH (15 August 1799 – 29 September 1878) was a Scottish naval officer and Member of Parliament. He was...
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Athens, Bishop of the Isles and Bishop of Galloway. His father was John Gordon, Lord Gordon and his mother was Margaret Stewart, an illegitimate daughter of...
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diplomat John Gordon, Lord Gordon (died 1517), Scottish nobleman John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland (1525–1567), Scottish magnate John Gordon, 13th Earl...
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Henry Gordon Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond, 11th Duke of Lennox, 11th Duke of Aubigny, 6th Duke of Gordon, CBE, DL (born 8 January 1955), styled Lord Settrington...
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of Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, Earl of Huntly and Enzie (all three of which he already held by an older creation), Viscount of Inverness, and Lord Strathaven...
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Dr John Gordon Gordon-Munn FRSE (1863 – 29 November 1949) was a Scots-born physician and psychiatrist who became Lord Mayor of Norwich. Gordon-Munn was...
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She died unmarried in 1934. Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond (1845–1928) Lord Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox (19 September 1847 – 3 October...
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"Lord Huntly now in the decline of his rackety life, overwhelmed with debts, sated with pleasure, tired of fashion, the last heir male of the Gordon line"...
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Huntly, the eldest son of Elizabeth Gordon and Alexander Seton, Lord Gordon, changed the family name from Seton to Gordon.c. 1457. His male heirs through...
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feud broke out between the Crichtons and the Gordons, in the course of which Huntly's second son, Lord Melgum, was burnt to death either by treachery...
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Harrow. He succeeded as 4th Duke of Gordon in 1752. His younger brother was Lord George Gordon, who incited the Gordon riots. He was elected as a Scottish...
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Sir John Watson Gordon PRSA RA (1788 – 1 June 1864) was a Scottish portrait painter and president of the Royal Scottish Academy. Gordon was born in 1788...
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Alexander Seton, Lord Gordon († 1440 or 1441) was a Scottish baron, Lord of Parliament and progenitor of the Gordon Earls and Marquesses of Huntly. Alexander...
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re-appointed in 1713 and sat as an Extraordinary Lord of Session in that capacity until his death in 1730. 1124-1126: John Capellanus 1126-1143: Herbert of Selkirk...
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